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id="article-heading" class="vt-blog-editorial-h1">Save your engineers&#x27; sleep: best practices for on-call processes</h1><p class="vt-blog-editorial-dek">We follow best practices to manage on-call shifts at Ably. This post explains how we&#x27;ve optimized our processes to eliminate common pain points.</p><div class="vt-blog-editorial-byline"><a href="/blog/author/james" class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-author"><img src="//www.gravatar.com/avatar/e58040646a639e8fbc9c3958502e009b?s=250&amp;d=mm&amp;r=x" alt="James Frost" width="72" class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-avatar"/><span class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-name">James Frost</span></a><div class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-meta-col"><span class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-meta">Nov 24, 2021</span><span class="vt-blog-editorial-meta-dot">·</span><span class="vt-blog-editorial-byline-meta">10 min read</span></div></div><div class="vt-blog-editorial-header-rule" aria-hidden="true"></div></header><div class="vt-blog-editorial-grid"><article aria-labelledby="article-heading"><figure class="vt-blog-editorial-feature-figure"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2021/11/on-call-engineering-duty-04.2.jpg?tr=w-1280,q-50" alt="Save your engineers&#x27; sleep: best practices for on-call processes" width="1280" class="w-full h-auto block"/></figure><div class="ghost-blog-post-body"><p>Many technology companies have an ongoing commitment to their customers to guarantee <a href="https://ably.com/four-pillars-of-dependability#reliability">reliability and uptime</a>, with service level agreements that guarantee to resolve or escalate incidents within a particular time frame. </p><p>Engineering team members rotate shifts so that someone is always on-call to be "paged" (these days, not using an actual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager">pager</a>) if an issue arises. Being on-call means that you typically need to be responsive even outside of your usual office hours. A system that regularly gets people out of bed makes engineers miserable and unproductive, which ultimately harms the quality of service provided to users.</p><p>As an infrastructure engineer, I've been on various on-call shift rotations in different companies (some have been better than others). The worst on-call rotation drove me to turn off PagerDuty notifications because they were too noisy, and instead forced me to dedicate myself to staring at dashboards. </p><p>Here are some of the pain points I've identified as symptoms of a flawed alerting system. 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</svg><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29329700">Discuss this post on HN</a></blockquote><h3 id="how-to-optimize-your-on-call-process">How to optimize your on-call process</h3><p>In the rest of this post, I outline how we manage on-call shifts at <a href="https://ably.com/">Ably</a>, including what we've built and how we've optimized processes to benefit the team, and our customers.</p><ul><li>We treat alerts as code</li><li>We use percentiles over averages</li><li>We use playbooks to document each alert</li><li>We use Prometheus Alertmanager</li><li>We use PagerBeauty to show who is on-call</li><li>We automate all our pages</li><li>We use routine tests</li><li>We have an incident management framework</li></ul><h4 id="treat-alerts-as-code">Treat alerts as code</h4><p>We automate how alerts are set up and managed and treat them as we would code. Each new alert has to go through a code review before we deploy or modify it, which stops unsupervised changes and helps ensure quality.</p><p>We get the following benefits from considering alerts as equivalent to code:</p><ul><li>Alerts are consistent. For example, we enforce that an alert must link to any corresponding playbooks.</li><li>Mistakes are centralized because alerts generate from the same set of common modules.</li><li>New alerts are generated from existing modules. This makes it faster to create new alerts while previous bugs stay fixed as they benefit from previous bug fixes.</li><li>Automation makes it easier to manage large numbers of alerts.</li></ul><h4 id="types-of-alert">Types of alert</h4><p>In general, the metrics you want to alert on will fall into three categories:</p><ul><li>Resource usage</li><li>Latency</li><li>Errors</li></ul><p>I've had success provisioning <a href="https://grafana.com/">Grafana</a> alerts using a combination of <a href="https://registry.terraform.io/providers/grafana/grafana/latest/docs">Terraform</a> and <a href="https://github.com/grafana/grafonnet-lib">Grafonnet</a>. Having alerts provisioned from the same underlying Terraform module helps tune alerts in a controlled way, and as we are going to run Grafana anyway, there's no need for additional services if we use it as the alerting engine too. It's easy to set up, and the user-friendly UI makes it easy to understand what alerts arise and why they are firing.</p><p>There are some disadvantages, such as Grafana lacking flexibility in setting alert thresholds, which have to be a static number and can't be another metric.</p><h4 id="non-production-environments">Non-production environments</h4><p>We find that it's helpful to monitor non-production environments to further develop alerts without interfering with those on the live production system.</p><p>It's also useful to monitor how development environments behave during <a href="https://ably.com/blog/how-we-load-tested-control-api">load testing</a> and other development activities.</p><p>We keep development alerts separate to avoid any confusion as to whether an alert is in production or not.</p><h4 id="use-percentiles-over-averages">Use percentiles over averages</h4><p>Percentile-based queries should produce a higher quality signal for you to alert on.</p><p>Averages are not ideal because they are too simplistic and one-dimensional; they do not allow you to understand distributions. In contrast, percentiles enable you to understand distributions, and they are also configurable; you can choose what percentile you want to use. Some issues may be more visible at the tail end of the distribution - averages will miss this.</p><p>With a system of our size that runs thousands of instances, alerting based on a single instance is not feasible. We run so many instances, and it's reasonably likely that one might be having difficulty at any point in time. Instead, we monitor things in aggregate, using percentiles. We can do this because our system is fault-tolerant enough that an issue with a single instance doesn't affect customer service quality.</p><h4 id="use-playbooks-to-document-each-alert">Use playbooks to document each alert</h4><p>Every alert should have corresponding documentation that explains what is broken and how to investigate and fix it, with a suggested structure such as the following:</p><ul><li>High-level overview</li><li>Severity</li><li>Impact</li><li>Debug suggestions</li><li>Remediate actions</li></ul><p>Any incidents that the alert creates should link to this documentation.</p><p>Documenting alerts means that new team members can onboard faster. It also means engineers can better support areas of the system with which they are less familiar. Lastly, it reduces the amount of independent thinking we have to do if we are paged at 3 AM - this is definitely a good thing.</p><h4 id="use-prometheus-alertmanager">Use Prometheus Alertmanager</h4><p><a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/">Prometheus Alertmanager</a> is a service that manages alerts. It can deduplicate and group alerts, as well as route them to different locations (PagerDuty, Slack, and so on).</p><p>In my experience, the most widely appreciated feature is the ability to silence specific alerts, for example, muting all alerts from a specific environment or AWS region: useful when you have upcoming maintenance or some other procedure that could cause alerts to fire unnecessarily.</p><p>This feature can also be misused. Every ops team sometimes ends up with a flaky alert that goes off even though there is no genuine issue, or the issue would have gone away without intervention. Appropriate responses to this might include:</p><ul><li>Removing the alert, if it is pretty clear the team will never actually care about this condition.</li><li>Improving the alerting rule by raising thresholds or sampling over a larger time window to reduce false alarms.</li><li>Stabilizing the underlying production system so that the minor issues detected stop happening.</li></ul><p>But sometimes, the operator on shift sees a recurring false alarm and says, "I don't want to deal with this – I will just add a silence for this alerting rule that expires in 999 years".</p><p>Besides properly training operators and providing support and budgeting time for real fixes, this can be addressed with gentle enforcement by automatically removing unreasonably long silences.</p><p>I also appreciate how Alertmanager delays resolving incidents in PagerDuty for a short period, waiting to see if they arise again. This stops alerts from spamming you with extra pages about the same incident. Spammy alerts have been a source of frustration for our on-call engineers; incidents are stressful enough, even without your phone repeatedly going off.</p><p>Alertmanager allows you to create <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/alertmanager/#inhibition">inhibition rules</a> to suppress certain alerts if other alerts are already firing. This can reduce noise, but it adds complexity and can make it hard for an on-call engineer to work out why they have or haven't been paged. As such, use inhibition rules sparingly.</p><h4 id="karma">Karma</h4><p>The standard Alertmanager UI is terrible. <a href="https://github.com/prymitive/karma">Karma</a> fixes this.</p><p>Karma is a dashboard for AlertManager, providing you with a significantly improved UI for browsing alerts and managing silences.</p><p>I have found that Karma has improved visibility during incidents, making it easier for everyone to understand what is currently happening.</p><p>Anything that produces alerts should be sent to Alertmanager. This means your Karma dashboard will show the current state of all alerts. Having a single dashboard has been extremely helpful.</p><p>If your alert provider doesn't support Alertmanager, it's easy to <a href="https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/clients/">integrate your own client</a>.</p><h4 id="use-pager-beauty-to-show-who-is-on-call">Use PagerBeauty to show who is on-call</h4><p>Communicating who is on-call is vital, as the company needs to know who is currently responsible for any incidents.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/sergiitk/pagerbeauty">PagerBeauty</a> is an excellent tool if you use PagerDuty. I recommend that you build a small webpage that uses PagerBeauty to show who is on-call for all of your on-call rotations.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2021/11/image3.png" class="kg-image" alt="A typical page to show who is assigned a shift in the Ably Realtime team." loading="lazy" srcset="https://ik.imagekit.io/ably/ghost/prod/2021/11/image3.png?tr=w-380,q-50 380w,
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We also have more time to spend on other things that add value to the service rather than fight fires.</p><p>Here are a few articles about this topic for further reading:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.intercom.com/blog/learning-fixing-value-triage-engineers/">Learning by fixing — the value of triage engineer rotations</a></li><li><a href="https://thenewstack.io/how-can-you-tell-if-your-on-call-system-is-broken/">How Can You Tell If Your On-Call System Is Broken?</a></li><li><a href="https://victorops.com/incident-response/six-ways-reduce-downtime/">6 Ways to Improve Your Monitoring and Incident Response</a></li></ul><h3 id="latest-from-ably-engineering"><strong>Latest from Ably Engineering</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://ably.com/blog/stretching-a-point-economics-of-elastic-infrastructure">Stretching a point: the economics of elastic infrastructure ?</a></li><li><a href="https://ably.com/blog/aws-vpc-peering-vs-transit-gateway-and-beyond">Key choices in AWS network design: VPC peering vs Transit Gateway and beyond</a></li><li><a href="https://ably.com/blog/how-we-load-tested-control-api">Squid game: how we load-tested Ably’s Control API</a></li><li><a href="https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes">No, we don't use Kubernetes</a></li></ul><!--kg-card-begin: html--><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class="hs-cta-wrapper" id="hs-cta-wrapper-7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85"><span class="hs-cta-node hs-cta-7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85" id="hs-cta-7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div id="hs-cta-ie-element"></div><![endif]--><a href="https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6939709/7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85" ><img class="hs-cta-img" id="hs-cta-img-7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85" style="border-width:0px;" height="300" width="962" src="https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6939709/7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85.png" alt="New call-to-action"></a></span><script charset="utf-8" src="https://js.hscta.net/cta/current.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> hbspt.cta.load(6939709, '7d515cef-595f-4305-8d1a-c1e9272b1d85', {"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"}); </script></span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><!--kg-card-end: html--><h3 id="about-ably">About Ably</h3><p>Ably is a fully managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) that offers fast, efficient message exchange and delivery, and state synchronization. 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